The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-07

dressed beef shippers complaining Of dis.
elimination made in the established tariff
rates against their interests and in favor of
live stock shippers. The committee took no
action, on the ground that it was outside Of
its jurisdiction, and referred the matter to
Commissioner Blanchard.
JOHN CONDOR, q trooper Of Company E,
| Seventh cavalry, was frozen to death the
other night near Fort Yates, Oak. He at
tempted to go from what is known as the
Half Way House to Winona, and he fell by
the wayside. A woman who was with him
went in search Of help and a party was or
ganized, but when they found Condor he
| was frozen stiff.
near Des Moines, Iowa, exploded recently,
killing three men and wounding two others.
IT was reported ut Leavenworth on the
29th that Whitrock alias .Jim Cnm-
mings,' had confessed to the Adams ex-
press robbery, and that large amount Of
money had been recovered.
FIRE recently destroyed the Mississippi
Valley Transportation steamer r. s. Hayes
and four barges and the Anchor Line
steamer City Of Natchez. while lying at the
bank at Cairo, Ill. The loss amounted TO
about a million dollars: insurance un-
known.
In a brewery accident in East ST. Louis
recently two men inhaled ammonia gas,
John Burke and James Turner. They were
resuscitated after being taken from the
| ruins, but both died soon after. j. j. Powell
| and Clement Bevelot, two workmen at the
place, were quite seriously injured but will
recover.
In saloon quarrel at Cairo ILL.,. the other
| night, Thomas Spicer, cOlored, was thrown
to the floor by Henry Hayes and Thomas
Mehan, who covered him with turpentine
and set fire to his clothing. The victim died
soon after and the perpetrators are in Jail.
THE Galesburg Qll.) opera house was
| totally destroyed by fire the other evening.
The building cost $4,000; insured for S225,-
900. Other losses will aggregate $1,000 to
s2O.OOO
CAPTAIN SPARROW, an Englishman, who
| went to New Mexico last June to 60 into
the cattle business, and who was fieeced
out Of his entire fortune, $4,000, by cattle
sharks, committed suicide by shooting him
self at Las Vegas. N. NJ, recently.
JUDGE II. H. TRIMBLE, of keOkuk. special
master in chancery, recently sold the
| Wabash road from Council Bluffs to Elm
Flats, near Pattonsburg, Mo-, distance 143
miles, to E. ". Sheldon for 81 400, COO who
holders.
MARSHAL MCDONALD thinks FOthering-
ham the Adams Express messenger.
| equally guilty with Whitrock and the rest
| in the robbery on the Frisco road.
SENATOR j. G. FAIR denies that he has
sold the south Pacific Coast railroad to the
| Southern Pacific.
MAYOR AMEs, of st. Paul, threatens to
| contest the recent election for Governor of
| Minnesota.
INTENSE cold recently interrupted milling
| operations at Minneapolis, Mimi, ice block
ing the water wheels.
IT is reported that purse of 5000 has
been made up to defend Arensdorf, the
Sioux City Qowa) brewer, charged with
| the murder of Rev. Haddocl in that city.
The dedication of the Michigan Soldiers
Home at Grand Rapids took place on the
| Both.
A REPORT has reached Nogales, A. T.,
| that Mexican troops and revolutionists have
| had terrible fight in Sinaloa, Mexico, and
many were killed en- both sides.
BURCHARD A. HAYES, eldest son of ex-
President Hayes, was married to a Miss
Mary Sherman, daughter of wealthy
| farmer, at Norwalk, O., recently.
THE will of the late Sidney NJ. Sabin, of
| La Porte, Ind, provides that $4,000 shall
be donated to Wabash College at Craw-
| louisville.
COMMISSIONER FINK has issued the fol-
| lowing circular taking effect on January
10, 1887: East bound rates on dressed hogs
will be on the following basis: Chicago to
New York in common cars, car loads, GO
cents; in refrigerator cars, car loads or
when loaded with dressed beef, Is cents.
THE SOUTH.
| WHEN Mr.. n. w. Noell the recently APP
pointed postmaster at Cisco, Tex, pre-
scented his credentials to David Redfield
and demanded possession of the Office, Red
field refused to turn over the Office to him.
Redfield claims that he can not legally turn
firmed by the Senate.
| AT Coperton, W. Va, Christmas night,
a feud broke out between the Hall and Gil
bert factions during dance. A terrible
amount of shooting and stabbing took place
and when the sheriff's posse restored order
they found George Gilbert dead with six
shots in his body, Eliza Gilbert killed by a
pistol shot, John Lane with his throat cut
and dead, Willis Hall stabbed fatally in the
abdomen, and John Montgomery horribly
L
breast. A numberof others were seriously
wounded, one by the officers in attempting
to escape.
THE steamboat Bradish John, used as q
boarding house at jackson, Ala, where the
West Alabama railroad bridge is building,
| was burned the other night Two whites,
Otis McElroy, of Mobile, and Dan Mithouse,
of New York, were missing, and two
negroes were drowned, and it was believed
that ten others, all negroes, persisted in the
flames and ten others were drowned.
HIRAM P. REvELs, the first colored man
elected to the United States Senate, is now
a well-to-do farmer in Mississippi There
have been two negro Senators and thirteen
Representatives.
THERE was lively scene in the low er
board of the City Council at Louisville,
KY, the other night. During an animated
discussion Vint Bradas. member from the
First Ward, called DR.. Carey Blackburn,
president of the board, a liar. DR.. Black
burn smacked Bradss, striking him three
or four blows with his fist. DIR. Blackburn
is the son Of Ex-Governor Blackburn and
Mr.. Bradas wholesale merchant.
The Nicholasville Ky.) opera house
I burned recently. Loss, $4,000.
HALF of the town of Marlboro, Nd, was
destroyed by fire recently.
| GENERAL.
THE tomb of W. II. Vanderbilt at New
Dorp. Staten Island, was sealed at noon on
the 9th. There was no ceremony.
Two of the officers and two of the cadets
convicted Of conspiracy against the present
Bulgarian regency were sentenced re-
Gently, the former to two months imprison-
ment each and the latter to two years each.
THE Secretary Of State has information
that two firms in Hong Kong, viz. Gin
Tung Hi and Wing King Tung Kit, are